27Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 25-32)Here, I. Orders are given to Gideon to begin his government with the reformation of his father’s house, Jdg. 5:25 , 26 . A correspondence being settled between God and Gideon, by the appearance of the angel to him, it was kept up in another way; the same night after he had seen God, when he was full of thoughts concerning what had passed, which probably he had not yet communicated to any, The Lord...
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